BE WARNED! This post is very boring. It’s what an old man does to escape watching any more Olympic figure skating… Three years ago, I had my first shot at looking at the FDA Approval documents for a psychiatric drug [seroquel II [version 2.0]: guessing…]. To be honest, I didn’t know anything about how to […]
I really never took a business course or thought about marketing before I started writing this blog. I don’t even bargain with car salesmen. But I’ve learned a few things in the last couple of years. I didn’t understand indication creep until a couple of years ago. I was sitting in a too-hot courtroom trying […]
This month’s American Journal of Psychiatry has two articles reporting clinical trials on Lurasidone [Latuda®] as either monotherapy or as an adjunct to mood stabilizers in Major Depressions associated with Bipolar Disorder. The trials were both sponsored by Sunovion Pharmaceuticals, were both registered on clinical trials.gov on the same day, and share a number of […]
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"The strange professor in my World Religion I Course had a lecture he’d given countless times, always with the same passion as the first day he wrote it. "Primitive man," he said, "had only two paths to follow in the face of an inhospitable nature." After a long pause, he continued, "Pious Petition – praying […]
On the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center [UPMC] website, there’s a CME selection, DSM-5 has arrived – a video of a C.M.E. talk by David Kupfer, Chair of the DSM-5 Task Force, a Professor of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, and the former Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry. This is a screenshot of […]
I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state but a process… A Grief Observed,C.S. Lewis, 1961 To their credit, Lisa Cosgrove of the Safra Center and her colleagues stayed on the case: Tripartite Conflicts of Interest and High Stakes Patent Extensions in […]
Back in March 2012, Lisa Cosgrove and Sheldon Krimsky documented the extensive connections between DSM-5 workgroup members and the pharmaceutical industry – criticizing the COI policy and suggesting changes: A Comparison of DSM-IV and DSM-5 Panel Members’ Financial Associations with Industry: A Pernicious Problem Persists PLoS Medicine by Lisa Cosgrove and Sheldon Krimsky March 13, […]
Whether Nero actually played the violin while Rome burned or not, the story is a great metaphor for misguided priorities, or indifference, or narcissism, or incompetence, or being clueless, or maybe even not sweating the things you can’t do anything about. Whatever it means, I prefer using it to describe other people rather than myself. […]
I’ve recently waded into unfamiliar territory – screening for depression [beyond symptoms…, the proposed study…]. It’s an area that I don’t know a lot about. There’s no question that my sudden interest in the topic is a reaction to the Gibbons/Kupfer CAT tests [open letter to the APA…]. My anger at their undeclared Conflict of […]